Kostas Gemenis

Contact Details:
Phone: +44 (0) 1782 733641
Email: k.gemenis@ilpj.keele.ac.uk

Background and Research Area/Thesis Title  

My PhD dissertation in progress investigates the impact of European integration on the parties' policy positions on environmental issues. My research combines quantitative and qualitative techniques in a 'mixed methods' research design. The core of the quantitative analysis was presented at the ECPR Summer School on Parties and Party Systems (European University Institute, Florence) on September 2008. The quantitative interpretation will be supplemented with an analysis of archival and interview data which will be collected in the spring semester in 2009. My current research interests are within the domains of Europeanization, parties and party systems and conceptualization and measurement in comparative politics.

I have previously studied in the University of Macedonia (BA Hons, International and European Studies 2003) and Leiden University (MA, Political Science 2005).

Supervisor Dr. Robert Ladrech http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/spire/staff/ladrech/index.htm  

Publications

(forthcoming) with Elias Dinas 'Measuring parties' ideological positions with manifesto data: a critical evaluation of the competing methods,' Party Politics (also published as a KEPRU Working Paper)

(in press, 2009) with Elias Dinas 'Confrontation still? Examining parties' policy positions in Greece,' Comparative European Politics (doi:10.1057/cep.2008.28)

(2009) 'A Green comeback in Greece? The Ecologist Greens in the 2007 parliamentary election,' Environmental Politics 18: 128-134.

(2008) 'The 2007 Parliamentary Election in Greece,' Mediterranean Politics 13: 95-101.